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Tamil Nadu budget 2025-26 to be tabled today amid controversy over Rupee symbol removalThe Tamil Nadu state budget for 2025-26 is set to be presented amid a controversy over the removal of the rupee symbol (₹) from its officia...- Demanding linguistic equality is not chauvinism, says TN CM StalinTamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin asserts that demanding linguistic equality isn't chauvinism and criticizes Hindi zealots for feeling...
- Not in Bengaluru for dosas; IT jobs to shift to Hyderabad and Pune, warns tech CEOThe Karnataka reservation bill upset CEOs, including Informal Tool, fearing the 'Kannada only' policy impacts Bengaluru's tech hub and tale...
- India is a union of states: Recognising this is vital to our success as a nationThe Centre would be stronger if it had to do fewer things, and the states even stronger by doing more in some areas and shedding powers in ...
- View: After Pranab Mukherjee, another fit candidate for Bharat Ratna would be Manmohan SinghPerhaps the Bharat Ratna should ideally not go to politicians but instead honour eminent citizens like corporate philanthropist Azim Premji...
- Fake news needs to become universalNot only does it sound far too sophisticated to evoke the correct mix of amusement and outrage, it is also excessively lengthy.
- Mumbai University on its deathbed, but here’s how it can still be savedHow did Mumbai become a back-bencher in higher education? The answer can be found in the title of a book Mumbai De-Intellectualised authore...
- Chinwagging with man’s best friendTurning woofs into words would certainly revolutionise the human-dog relationship; maybe humans can then finally bark back to their pets to...
- After BJP, AIADMK mocks at Karuna's jibe against HindiSeeking to mock the party for using Hindi selectively, the caricature had in the backdrop a poster put up by DMK during an election in chas...
- BJP lambasts M Karunanidhi criticism of plan for Vedic education"Kalaignar (Karunanidhi) has criticised the Central government with the aim of once again doing politics in the name of language," BJP stat...
- M Karunanidhi slams Centre for 'thrusting Sanskrit'Referring to media reports that the HRD Ministry was toying with the idea of setting up a board for Vedic education (Ved Vidya).
- Country's linguistic glue is Bollywood, not SanskritSmriti Irani acknowledges that India's three-language formula leaves the choice of a third language to each state, so Sanskrit cannot be im...
- Political parties in south India wary of saffron hand in pro-Hindi agitationOpposition to English examination for civil services seems to have revived sentiment that an invisible hand is back, imposing Hindi.
- The deep perils of cricket nationalismThe act privileged a view of nationalism as a monochrome expression of unvarying and uniform loyalty from all sections regardless of their ...
- Twisting tongues to stay tied to a tongue?There has been no move to counter France’s ongoing war on words that are avowedly English by provenance but international by usage.
- Jairam Ramesh hits out at Shiv Sena for 'regional chauvinism'Strongly supporting migration within the country, Ramesh said politics of regionalism is the "biggest barrier" to the process helping the n...
- English presides over multicultural and multinational interactionsConsidering the first words the new French PM addressed to Angela Merkel, there is no doubt that English is the language of international p...
- Mother TongueLilacharitra is post-Prakrit Marathi's very first book. It is a biography of the Gujarat-born saint, Sri Chakradharswami, compiled by Mahim...
- States' reorganisationCentre must appoint a second States' reorganisation commission forthwith.
- The Lord resides in every beingWhen was the last time you made fun of someone’s accent or background? Remember the movie Padosan and the absolutely priceless antics of ai...
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